AMSN

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: AMSN
started by: chickenman

Posted by chickenman on Aug. 16 2004,08:39

I have a HDD install of DSL and I cant get amsn to go!
First i downloaded the amsn.dsl from myDSL, then once that did nothing and I realised i needed tcltk8.3 dsl so i got that. It still does nothing so i decide to be ambitious and assume theres something screwed about amsn.dsl and go dl the tarball of amsn off sourceforge. I untar that but cant "wish" it, i realise this is part of the tcltk8.3 dsl and when i gointo /use/bin wish is there. so i have no idea what to do basically, did my installing of amsn.dsl before tcltk8.3.dsl #### everything up? or is it just my being a n00b?

Any help would be greatfully appreciated.

Posted by update on Aug. 16 2004,14:22

well i got ayttm.dsl and that runs msn so i am happy for now, but I would still rather be using amsn as I think its better but I dont really mind all that much. If anyone could directly point out where i srewd up i'd appreciate it still, thanks.

Posted by ripcrd6 on Aug. 16 2004,14:44

You need to load the tcltk8.3.dsl first, then amsn.dsl. Is your's a frugal or poor-man's install? It's always best to test this stuff on a LiveCD first. In fact, if you did a normal install to HDD, then you need to load the gnu-utils.dsl and activate apt-get. You may be able to apt-get what you need.

Posted by chickenman on Aug. 17 2004,10:01

can i now somehow delete amsn then re-install it? I'm getting gnu-utils.dsl now so i'll see what that does. thanks for your help.

Posted by ripcrd6 on Aug. 17 2004,14:13

forgot this, you also need dsl-dpkg.dsl to be able to apt-get.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 17 2004,14:57

If you have already installed the amsn.dsl file, you should
be able to now install the tcltk8.3.dsl , and then run amsn..

I don't believe there is any particular order to install these..
They both need to be on the hard drive to run amsn

73
ke4nt

Posted by chibiace on Aug. 18 2004,04:13

yup
tcltk8.3.dsl and amsn.dsl. get it working for me. and i also put tls1.4.1-linux-x86.tar.gz which i got somewhere at sourceforge which amsn downloads. but you should only need to download once with the harddrive install anyway i think. and um that goes in /usr/share/amsn/plugins/

mmm. i had problems running some stuff after i installed whitebox. but otherwise just tcltk is needed i believe >.<